Jon Trickett MP

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Govt Depts are spending around £10million a month on recruitment agencies alone

Government answers to Parliamentary Questions tabled by Jon Trickett, Shadow Minister for the Cabinet Office have revealed that Whitehall departments and quangos are spending around £10million a month on recruitment agencies alone

Commenting on the figures, Jon said:

“These figures reveal a shocking false-economy; it is quite clear that the Government’s left hand doesn’t know what its right hand is doing.

On the one hand they are talking about the need for savings, cutting thousands of jobs and forcing redundancies.  On the other hand they are spending tens of millions of pounds in recruitment agency fees alone and hiring new temporary workers.

This is a chaos theory of government and David Cameron has demonstrated yet again just how irresponsible his Government really is when it comes to spending public money.”